The marketing department at Seiko claims that these watches were inspired by the ‘world of night diving’. I think it’s more likely they were inspired by how popular black PVD cases are these days with the watch buying public – but no matter why they’ve come about they sure look nice.

The designers at Seiko had the challenge of making these watches look stealthy while maintaining the readability that Seiko divers are known for.

The usual white hour markers have been changed to tan. The minute hand is outlined in vivid orange so that you never lose sight of it when using the timing bezel. And of course, lots of bright LumiBrite is coated on all the important bits.

Probably the best way to compare the differences is to show the new Solar Diver SNE493 next to the SNE441, a previous dark-style Solar Diver:

Pretty damn sweet looking eh?

Speaking of the new Solar Diver, I think it’s my favorite of the three watches.

I’m usually not a huge fan of date window magnifiers, a little to Rolex derivative on most watches. But I think it looks very nice here.

There’s not a huge amount of information about these from the Seiko website, but rumors from around the internet are that these will be released in March 2018. It also sounds like they’ll be pretty pricey, especially the black Turtle (about $650 is what I saw).

No word on just how limited this Limited Edition series will be, I’m guessing if these prove popular Seiko will probably make them not so limited in the future.

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